"The state of a king shuts him..." - Quote by Thomas Paine

“That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.”

“I know not whether taxes are raised to fight wars, or wars are fought in order to raise taxes.”

“Taxes were not raised to carry on wars, but that wars were raised to carry on taxes.”

“(A ruler) cannot and should not keep his word when to do so would go against his interests or when the reason he pledged it no longer holds.”

“The presence of a king engenders loveAmongst his subjects, and his royal friends.”

“Rulers come and go. It's the people who are the real rulers of the country.”

“And long there he lay, an image of the splendour of the Kings of Men in glory undimmed before the breaking of the world.”

“Canst thou, O partial sleep, give thy repose to the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude, and in the calmest and most stillest night, with all appliances and means to boot, deny it to a king?”

“For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground, and tell sad stories of the death of kings... All murdered; for within the hollow crown that rounds the mortal temples of a king, keeps Death his court... and with a little pin bores through his castle wall, and farewell king!”